Hello Readers When deploying Office Online Server today, I ran into a error when trying to install the media via the mighty Pat Richard script and running the setup executable manually. Setup is unable to proceed due to the following error(s): – The installation of a Microsoft Office Online Server Language Pack requires that Microsoft…

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Hello Readers, As the 2016 events calendar comes to a close, it has definitely been a roller coaster of a ride but as always an awesome learning experience. Goodbye UCBUG I am sad to say goodbye to Unified Communications Birmingham User Group as its been the platform for UC and Cloud Day and now the…

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Hello Readers In the world of Microsoft technologies there is always one thing that seems to be a dark art and SQL AlwaysOn can definitely be added to this list, we all need our magic wands and psychic powers. I have designed this post to be a one stop shop for all things Skype for…

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Hello Readers The UC and Cloud Day 2016 Agenda has now been made available to download. So you can check when and where you need to be via your smartphone. Download the Agenda now from http://www.ucday.co.uk/agenda/ Regards Andrew J. Price Office Servers and Services MVP

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Hello Readers As some you may or may not be aware but I am the main organiser of “UC Day” which is a dedicated Microsoft Unified Communications and Cloud Conference based in the heart of the United Kingdom. This year we will have 17 MVPs from around the global delivering inspiring technical sessions about…

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Good Morning, I am happy to announce that the list of the Speakers and Sessions has now been uploaded to the UC Day website. As you can see from below we have a lot of quality sessions which I am looking forward to attending myself and its not to late to grab a ticket for…

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Hello Readers, I recently founded a new User Group called the “Microsoft Cloud User Group” which had its first meeting on the 13th July at Microsoft offices in Paddington, London. Here is all the slides from the event for your enjoyment. Ed Baker (Microsoft) – Whats is the Microsoft Cloud In this introductory session,…

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Hello Readers This post is to track all changes made to the Skype for Business SQL AlwaysOn Script I have made available via the Technet Gallery. Information about Script I have been recently working with a lot of Skype for Business Deployments with SQL AlwaysOn BackEnd Servers and decided to make a little script…

H llo Readers, The next Unified Communication Birmingham User Group welcomes Graham Hosking and Steve Goodman, who will be talking about “Everything you need to know about PSTN Calling in the UK and Whats new in the Exchange Hybrid Wizard”. If these session sound right up your street, sign today over at www.ucbug.co.uk/ucbugev9 6:00 Networking…

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Unified Communications Day will be coming back in 2016 on the 24th October. After a successful event this year we have decided to include an extra technical track to our event, Microsoft Azure, where you can learn from the best about the latest and greatest happening within the Azure arena. This will now make UC…

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The Microsoft Cloud User Group aims to provide a venue for IT professionals to provide help for each other; to discuss the latest topics and share their knowledge around the Microsoft Cloud technologies and it’s future. If you are wondering who’s behind the MS Cloud User Group – it’s people just like you. We are…

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Hello Readers I have been recently rolling out a Skype for Business Voice pilot to one of my customers and ran into a weird issue also described here https://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c97531a1-2935-4165-8d76-e9707ee84be4/488-invalid-incoming-gateway-sdp-invalid-media?forum=communicationsservertelephony. This deployment is designed to integrate with the existing Alcatel telephony system that is also managed by my organisation and the requirements are simple. Be able…

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(1 Come and join us on this Wednesday Theres is now only a couple of days until our next Unified Communications Birmingham User Group meeting that will be happening on the 11th May, make sure you don’t miss out.The format of the evening will be; 6:00 – Networking 6:30 – IR – One View to…

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Hello Readers I have recently ran into an issue where I have deployed two new Lync 2013 Pools with Pool Pairing and when I try move a test users from new Pool 1 to new Pool 1 DR I receive the following error. Warning message when you run the Move-CsUser cmdlet WARNING: There were some…